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Borderlands 4 Won't Cost $80 After All as 2K Confirms Pricing and Pre-Order Details
Gearbox CEO Randy Pitchford drew criticism last month after suggesting that "real fans" woudn't mind paying $80 for a game. Now, publisher 2K has confirmed that the Standard Edition of Borderlands 4 will be priced at $70. The game will launch on PC, PS5 and Xbox Series S/X on September 12.
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Resident Evil 5 Gets ESRB Rating for Xbox Series S/X, Suggesting Re-Release on Current-Gen Consoles
Capcom has found critical acclaim and commercial success with its recent remakes of beloved Resident Evil games. A recent Entertainment Software Rating Board (ESRB) listing suggests the publisher could be readying a fresh re-release of an older RE title on current-generation consoles. Resident Evil 5 has been rated by ESRB for the Xbox Series S/X.
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Microsoft Signs AI-Learning Deal With News Corp.’s HarperCollins
Microsoft reached a deal with News Corp.’s HarperCollins that will allow the software company to use nonfiction titles from the book publisher to train its Artificial Intelligence models, according to a person familiar with the matter. The company isn’t planning to use the content to generate new books without human authors, the person said.
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Apple Trained Two AI Models Using Google's Chips, Research Paper Shows
Apple relied on chips designed by Google rather than industry leader Nvidia to build two key components of its Artificial Intelligence (AI) software infrastructure for its forthcoming suite of AI tools and features, an Apple research paper published on Monday, July 29 showed.
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Grand Theft Auto, NBA 2K Drive Take-Two Quarterly Sales to $1.39 Billion, Beating Wall Street Estimates
Take-Two Interactive Software on Wednesday beat analyst estimates for quarterly adjusted sales on strong demand from legacy titles "NBA 2K" and "Grand Theft Auto", sending the video game publisher's shares up 8 percent in extended trading.
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Bandai Namco Invests in Pune-Based Game Studio SuperGaming: Details
Japanese publisher Bandai Namco Entertainment, best known for Elden Ring and Pac-Man, has invested in two gaming technology startups — SuperGaming from India and Deepmotion from the US. SuperGaming is known for its mobile game such as Silly Royale and MaskGun and is currently working on its indo-futuristic battle-royale title Indus. The company a...
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Elden Ring Has Sold Over 20 Million Copies Worldwide, Bandai Namco Confirms
Elden Ring has sold over 20 million copies worldwide, publisher Bandai Namco confirmed in a tweet. The Game of the Year winner at The Game Awards 2022 achieved this milestone just days before its one-year anniversary on February 25. The total combines the figures of both physical and digital units sold. At The Game Awards, director Hidetaka Miyazak...
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Tencent Said to Be in Talks With Meta to Distribute Quest VR Headsets in China
Tencent Holdings is in talks with Meta Platforms to distribute its Meta Quest line of virtual reality headsets in China, three people familiar with the matter said. The talks between Tencent and Meta started last year and have continued in recent months, according to one of the sources who has direct knowledge of the matter, adding that the talks ...
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Hogwarts Legacy For PS4, Xbox One, and Nintendo Delayed: All You Need to Know
Hogwarts Legacy, the upcoming open-world Harry Potter RPG to be published by Warner Bros. Games and developed by Avalanche Software, has seemed to hit another delay in release, but only for certain platforms. The game will only make its way to PlayStation 4 and Xbox One consoles by April 4, 2023, while the Nintendo Switch version of the game will a...
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Google Disagrees With Engineer Who Claimed LaMDA AI Chatbot Had Become Sentient, Sent Him on Leave
Google suspended senior software engineer Blake Lemoine on June 13 for sharing transcripts of a chat with a “sentient” artificial intelligence (AI) and violating Google's confidentiality policy. He had published transcripts of chats between him and the company's LaMDA (Language Model For Dialogue Applications) chatbot development system. Lemoin...
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Signal Alleges Flaws in Law Enforcement Equipment Sold by Israeli Surveillance Firm Cellebrite
Signal suggested in a blog post published on Wednesday that products sold to law enforcement from Israeli surveillance provider Cellebrite can easily be sabotaged.
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Boeing Training On 737 MAX "Inadequate": Ethiopia Crash Report
Ethiopia's probe of last year's Ethiopian Airlines crash found that Boeing did not provide sufficient training for the 737 MAX and that crucial flight software was flawed, according to an interim report published Monday.
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Analysis: Twitter's New China Head Makes Spectacularly Awkward Debut
Kathy Chen is new to Twitter - in every sense. On Friday, Twitter founder Jack Dorsey welcomed Chen, a software engineer who once worked for the People's Liberation Army, as the company's new managing director for "Greater China," which includes, in Twitter's view, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan. The same day, Chen published her first couple of twe...
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Intel Releases Stephen Hawking's Speech Software Online
A software by Intel that lets physicist Stephen Hawking communicate via a computer has been published online by the company in the hopes that it will be used by researchers developing new interfaces for sufferers of diseases like amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS).
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Google+ Video Auto Enhance Feature Now Available for Desktop, Android
On Friday, Google+ Photos software engineer, Tim St. Clair, published an announcement post on company's behalf detailing the feature.
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Borderlands 4 Won't Cost $80 After All as 2K Confirms Pricing and Pre-Order Details
Gearbox CEO Randy Pitchford drew criticism last month after suggesting that "real fans" woudn't mind paying $80 for a game. Now, publisher 2K has confirmed that the Standard Edition of Borderlands 4 will be priced at $70. The game will launch on PC, PS5 and Xbox Series S/X on September 12.
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Resident Evil 5 Gets ESRB Rating for Xbox Series S/X, Suggesting Re-Release on Current-Gen Consoles
Capcom has found critical acclaim and commercial success with its recent remakes of beloved Resident Evil games. A recent Entertainment Software Rating Board (ESRB) listing suggests the publisher could be readying a fresh re-release of an older RE title on current-generation consoles. Resident Evil 5 has been rated by ESRB for the Xbox Series S/X.
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Microsoft Signs AI-Learning Deal With News Corp.’s HarperCollins
Microsoft reached a deal with News Corp.’s HarperCollins that will allow the software company to use nonfiction titles from the book publisher to train its Artificial Intelligence models, according to a person familiar with the matter. The company isn’t planning to use the content to generate new books without human authors, the person said.
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Apple Trained Two AI Models Using Google's Chips, Research Paper Shows
Apple relied on chips designed by Google rather than industry leader Nvidia to build two key components of its Artificial Intelligence (AI) software infrastructure for its forthcoming suite of AI tools and features, an Apple research paper published on Monday, July 29 showed.
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Grand Theft Auto, NBA 2K Drive Take-Two Quarterly Sales to $1.39 Billion, Beating Wall Street Estimates
Take-Two Interactive Software on Wednesday beat analyst estimates for quarterly adjusted sales on strong demand from legacy titles "NBA 2K" and "Grand Theft Auto", sending the video game publisher's shares up 8 percent in extended trading.
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Bandai Namco Invests in Pune-Based Game Studio SuperGaming: Details
Japanese publisher Bandai Namco Entertainment, best known for Elden Ring and Pac-Man, has invested in two gaming technology startups — SuperGaming from India and Deepmotion from the US. SuperGaming is known for its mobile game such as Silly Royale and MaskGun and is currently working on its indo-futuristic battle-royale title Indus. The company a...
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Elden Ring Has Sold Over 20 Million Copies Worldwide, Bandai Namco Confirms
Elden Ring has sold over 20 million copies worldwide, publisher Bandai Namco confirmed in a tweet. The Game of the Year winner at The Game Awards 2022 achieved this milestone just days before its one-year anniversary on February 25. The total combines the figures of both physical and digital units sold. At The Game Awards, director Hidetaka Miyazak...
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Tencent Said to Be in Talks With Meta to Distribute Quest VR Headsets in China
Tencent Holdings is in talks with Meta Platforms to distribute its Meta Quest line of virtual reality headsets in China, three people familiar with the matter said. The talks between Tencent and Meta started last year and have continued in recent months, according to one of the sources who has direct knowledge of the matter, adding that the talks ...
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Hogwarts Legacy For PS4, Xbox One, and Nintendo Delayed: All You Need to Know
Hogwarts Legacy, the upcoming open-world Harry Potter RPG to be published by Warner Bros. Games and developed by Avalanche Software, has seemed to hit another delay in release, but only for certain platforms. The game will only make its way to PlayStation 4 and Xbox One consoles by April 4, 2023, while the Nintendo Switch version of the game will a...
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Google Disagrees With Engineer Who Claimed LaMDA AI Chatbot Had Become Sentient, Sent Him on Leave
Google suspended senior software engineer Blake Lemoine on June 13 for sharing transcripts of a chat with a “sentient” artificial intelligence (AI) and violating Google's confidentiality policy. He had published transcripts of chats between him and the company's LaMDA (Language Model For Dialogue Applications) chatbot development system. Lemoin...
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Signal Alleges Flaws in Law Enforcement Equipment Sold by Israeli Surveillance Firm Cellebrite
Signal suggested in a blog post published on Wednesday that products sold to law enforcement from Israeli surveillance provider Cellebrite can easily be sabotaged.
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Boeing Training On 737 MAX "Inadequate": Ethiopia Crash Report
Ethiopia's probe of last year's Ethiopian Airlines crash found that Boeing did not provide sufficient training for the 737 MAX and that crucial flight software was flawed, according to an interim report published Monday.
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Analysis: Twitter's New China Head Makes Spectacularly Awkward Debut
Kathy Chen is new to Twitter - in every sense. On Friday, Twitter founder Jack Dorsey welcomed Chen, a software engineer who once worked for the People's Liberation Army, as the company's new managing director for "Greater China," which includes, in Twitter's view, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan. The same day, Chen published her first couple of twe...
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Intel Releases Stephen Hawking's Speech Software Online
A software by Intel that lets physicist Stephen Hawking communicate via a computer has been published online by the company in the hopes that it will be used by researchers developing new interfaces for sufferers of diseases like amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS).
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Google+ Video Auto Enhance Feature Now Available for Desktop, Android
On Friday, Google+ Photos software engineer, Tim St. Clair, published an announcement post on company's behalf detailing the feature.
